PTI reported that the Supreme Court, which cancelled the All India Pre-Medical Entrance Test (AIPMT) on Monday , has agreed to listen to the plea of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) asking that it needed at least three months to conduct a new AIPMT: A bench of justices RK Agrawal and ...

The Supreme Court Advocate on Record Association (SCAORA) on Wednesday questioned in the apex court the central government’s claim that junking the collegium system for National Judicial Appointment Commission was “the will of the nation”. Assailing the government’s contention that the “nation wants...

The Supreme Court has announced that it will open a child care centre on 1 July at in chambers numbers 8 and 9 of the New Lawyers’ Chambers Building at Bhagwan Dass Road, which will be equipped with “child friendly furniture, utensils, toys and play materials and first aid kit”.

In last and previous years, there was only a one week miscellaneous week on either side of the apex court’s summer vacations.

Taking a divergent position from the government, the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Tuesday told the Supreme Court that if it was to strike down the NJAC, then it would result in automatic resurrection of the collegium system followed earlier. “I disagree with the government that the invalidat...

The central government on Monday told the Supreme Court that any invalidation of the NJAC for the appointment of judges to the higher judiciary would not result in the automatic resurrection of the collegium system of appointment.

The Supreme Court has cancelled the All India Pre-Medical Entrance Test (AIPMT) after the paper was leaked but technological challenges remain on how to prevent the same debacle from happening again.

The government today told the Supreme Court that the tax payers had a right to know the quality of judges appointed to the higher judiciary, as it once again criticised the collegium system “of judges appointing judges - for promoting judges who reserved judgments in hundreds of cases after long hea...

S&R Associates promoted associates Lynn Pereira in Delhi and Vivek Kumar in Mumbai to counsel, according to a press release from the firm. GLC Mumbai 1996 graduate Pereira is in the firm’s corporate and commercial disputes practice since he joined in 2013. From 1998 to 2010 he was at the chambe...

The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2015 paper-setters may have breached the copyright of an online portal and Common Admission Test (CAT) guidebooks, in addition to committing a cognizable offence under the Information Technology Act 2000, argues SpicyIP . All but 15 out of 153 questions in CLAT 2...

The Supreme Court on Thursday said that the rejection of an aspirant for appointment as a judge on the grounds of doubtful credentials could be disastrous with the NJAC coming within the ambit of the defamation law. The court expressed its misgiving saying that it would be difficult to give an “hone...

The government today told the Supreme Court that the collegium recommended and reiterated the appointments of people as judges despite adverse Intelligence Bureau reports and “severe” comments by its own judges questioning their ability and integrity in some cases. Attorney General (AG) Mukul Rohatg...

The Narendra Modi government today told the Supreme Court that the National Judicial Appointment Commission (NJAC) for appointments to higher judiciary had a component of a “hit and trial” experiment for finding the best people for the posts. Contending that there was an element of uncertainty in ev...

The Supreme Court on Monday extended, till June 12, the stay of declaration of the All India Pre-Medical Entrance Test (AIPMT) results, over-riding its earlier order restraining the Central Board of Secondary Education to hold back the results till June 9. The court had June 3 asked the CBSE not to ...

The central government on Monday told the Supreme Court that it was the will of the people to have transparent, accountable and criteria-based appointment of judges through the National Judicial Appointment Commission (NJAC) instead of the collegium system whose working was shrouded in mystery. Cont...

Three days after issuing circular to hospitals to conduct two-finger test on rape victims and facing criticism, the Delhi government decided to revoke it on Monday. Speaking at the Delhi secretariat, Health Minister Satyendra Jain said the government had decided to completely ban the two finger test...

The Supreme Court today chided the Rajasthan government for displaying “state of helplessness” in carrying out a high court direction to facilitate widening of the Delhi-Jaipur highway. The widening of the highway is held up due to a ‘bavadi’ (stepwell) and ‘samadhi’ (memorial of Baba Balnath. The R...

The Supreme Court, observing the credibility of the All India Pre-Medical Entrance Test (AIPMT) was in question, on Wednesday asked the CBSE not to declare the results till June 9 as Haryana Police was probing the leak of the May 3 examination paper. A vacation bench of Justice Prafulla C Pant and J...

The Karnataka government today decided to appeal in the Supreme Court against the acquittal of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa in the disproportionate assets case. “The state cabinet has accepted the recommendation of the special public prosecutor (BV Acharya) and state advocate general (Ra...

NLU Delhi’s nine-month-old death penalty clinic helped death penalty convicts Shabnam and Saleem win relief in the Supreme Court, which quashed their death warrants on Wednesday after having stayed their execution earlier in the week . The clinic, according to its press release, coordinated the lega...